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Ramah (from Hebrew: "height" [1]) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a city in ancient Israel in the land allocated to the tribe of Benjamin. It was located near Gibeon and Mizpah to the West, Gibeah to the South, and Geba to the East. Ramah has been commonly identified with modern al-Ram, about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north of Jerusalem.
Ramathaim-Zophim (Hebrew: רמתיים־צופים), also called Ramah (רָמָה ) and Ramatha in the Douay–Rheims Bible translation (Ramathaimsophim in the Vulgate), is a city from the Hebrew Bible, the home town and resting place of prophet Samuel. The name of the town means "the heights of the views."
In the monarchic period down to the Babylonian captivity, it would follow, Rachel's tomb was thought to lie in Ramah. [37] The indications for this are based on 1 Sam 10:2 and Jer. 31:15, which give an alternative location north of Jerusalem, in the vicinity of ar-Ram, biblical Ramah, [38] five miles south of Bethel. [39]
At Ramah, Samuel secretly anointed Saul, after having met him for the first time, while Saul was looking for his father's lost donkeys, and treated him to a meal. A prophet, based at Shiloh, who went throughout the land, from place to place, with unwearied zeal, reproving, rebuking, and exhorting the people to repentance.
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1] [2] [3] or later Aramaic or Greek formations.
Naioth was a biblical place located in Ramah. The prophet Samuel and the anointed one David took refuge together there after David's escape from the jealous anger of King Saul . The word may mean "living places" or "dwellings". [ 1 ]
Meir Abulafia is commonly known as "the Ramah" (Hebrew: רמ"ה).He should not be confused with Moses Isserles, known as "the Rema" or "the Rama" (Hebrew: רמ"א).. Meir ben Todros HaLevi Abulafia (/ ˈ m eɪ. ər h ə ˈ l eɪ v i ˌ æ b uː ˈ l æ f i ə / MAY-ər hə-LAY-vee AB-oo-LAF-ee-ə; c. 1170 – 1244), also known as the Ramah (Hebrew: הרמ"ה) (an acronym of his Hebrew name ...
The British Bible scholar, Hugh J. Schonfield theorized that the location of Armageddon, mentioned only in the New Testament, at (Revelation 16:16), is a Greek garbling of a supposed late Aramaic name for Ramoth-Gilead; that this location, having anciently belonged to the Hebrew tribe of Gad, was, in New Testament times, part of the Greek ...